colors of fall----

A couple weeks ago on a Saturday morning, I went and took a couple pictures of the colored leaves. I didn't have much time and didn't get as many as I wanted, but here are a few.

I got back from Wisconsin at 2:15 this morning! It was a good, fast, long, crazy, fun, freezing and everything else trip. The sad part was being away from my guy. :( It was fun to be with the girls though and of course I'm a girl so I loved going to the wedding. I'll post some pictures of the trip soon, hopefully. I can't believe that there's only 24 days until Christmas!! This year has flown by faster then I knew time could fly.


I know Thanksgiving has past, but I wanted to post some things I'm thankful for:

1. My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
2. The wonderful man that God has placed in my life - Matt
3. My parents
4. All 10 siblings and my sister and brother-in-laws'
5. My 36 nieces and nephews born and the 3 on the way
6. The ability to see the beautiful world around me
7. Friends who will always stand behind you no matter what
8. The freedom to live a Christian life
9. Health
10. Cellphones (these are a BIG necessity these days:))

There are so many more things that I'm thankful for, but I don't think anyone would be reading by the end. Until later...

forgotten pictures

I had forgotten to download these pictures for some reason and just came across them last weekend on my camera. While Susan and Tj were down, I watched their children one evening. We had a lot of fun together!

We didn't manage to get a picture where they were all looking. :)

My Dad bought this at a Yard Sale for $25! All the kids love it! When I went and picked this up, and the guy took it all apart, he asked me if I had taken a picture of it so I knew how it went back together. Of course I had not and was wondering how long it would take to put it together. Matt and I worked at it and it was finished in about 20min.

On their last day here, we went to Cedar Key...

*family pictures - C session*

I was able to take this family's pictures on Sunday afternoon...

These two boys are so adorable and they did so well! I have to say that the entertaining uncle along helped with that. :)

::matt and i::

So I've had these pictures for a couple weeks, but haven't taken the time to post them. Susan took these pictures for us while she was down. Thank you for taking these Susan, I'm very happy with them.

Here are some pictures of two very good friends...

football.family gathering.birthday

It was fun having the family around recently. There's never enough time when Tj, Susan and the kids come to visit, but I enjoy the time I get to spend with them. We had 18 kids 6 and under at the get together! It didn't even seem that many, but I guess I'm just use to their being a lot of people and kids.

I love watching these boys play football and there's enough of them to make a nice size team!

Cool dude!

Love the curls!

This toy was the highlight of the weekend.

Kenna

We also celebrated my birthday while everyone was over on the 9th. I loved Matt being there this year! It was also nice having Tj and Susan here since that doesn't happen very often.

I had lots of help opening gifts. :) All the kids wanted to have a turn.

::the 3 kids::

After family pictures, I took the three oldest back outside to take some more pictures. They weren't really in a "do what you say" pictures mood, but I liked that. This was just them being themselves...

Here's two more with the whole fam...